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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Thomas Carlyle

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Concentration Deep Endurance Focus One Liner Patience
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

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